When You Are Engulfed in Flames
First edition cover
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| Author | David Sedaris |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Essay collection |
| Publisher | Little, Brown and Company |
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Publication date
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June 3, 2008 |
| Media type | Print (hardcover), audiobook |
| Pages | 323 pp (first edition, hardcover) |
| ISBN | (first edition, hardcover) |
| OCLC | 183392234 |
| 814/.54 22 | |
| LC Class | PS3569.E314 W48 2008 |
| Preceded by | Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim |
| Followed by | Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary |
When You Are Engulfed in Flames is a collection of essays by bestselling American humorist David Sedaris. It was released on June 3, 2008.
Sedaris's sixth book assembles essays on various situations such as trying to make coffee when the water is shut off, associations in the French countryside, buying drugs in a mobile home in rural North Carolina, having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a fellow passenger on a plane, armoring windows with LP covers to protect the house from neurotic songbirds, lancing a boil from another's backside, and venturing to Japan to quit smoking. Little, Brown and Company issued a first-run hardcover release of 100,000 copies.
Sedaris was a guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central on June 3, 2008. During the interview he recommended moving to Hiroshima, Japan for three months to stop smoking. This smoking cessation method, which cost the author $23,000, is the subject of the last essay of his book. He also described the genesis for the name of his book. It was the name of a chapter in a book he found in a hotel room in Hiroshima, Japan. He also appeared on The Late Show on CBS, with David Letterman.
The first-edition cover was designed by Chip Kidd. It features an early painting by Vincent van Gogh.
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